<p>What are the seperate strenghts and weaknesses of each program, how do they compaire in terms of emplyment, salary, and the like?</p>
<p>Do they offer ECONOMICS in the McIntire School???????????? I am going to be a Econ major this year and i am sure that ECONOMICS is only in the College of Arts and Science. You need to do research...</p>
<p>no, what I meant was the differences between Econ in the College of Arts and Sciences and Buisiness in the Mcintire School of commerce.</p>
<p>Sorry for not being clear.</p>
<p>Business in Mcintire (like all undergrad business schools) is much more specialized in, well business, than economics. Economics is more of a humanity, while business is applied...wow, that probably did not help much!</p>
<p>Also, there is no econ on Mcintire.</p>
<p>I too am stuck with that issue-I really like finance and econ, but I don't want to specialize too soon. No clue where I will end up.</p>
<p>The inside scoop I've heard (from Econ and Darden professors, not McIntire though) is that if you want to do FINANCE specifically, doing the financial economics concentration is definitely the way to go. Very rigorous, but it also allows you to go after the liberal arts education which graduate business schools like to see AND gives you superior technical training. </p>
<p>If, on the other hand, you'd like to make a lot of money right after graduation, then the Comm school is your path. Early results of longitudinal studies do show that McIntire graduates have a greater tendency to top out at middle management, whereas College graduates' education seems to be more conducive to long run salary increases. Some other notes about doing McIntire is that you have less flexibility than in the college, but better classroom facilities. You will also be working on <em>substantially</em> more group projects; so if you don't work well with others, stay out =)</p>
<p>You can't go wrong with either, really. While it's very unattractive to me, everyone I know at McIntire likes it very much.</p>